# Gösta Pettersson

Gösta Artur Roland Pettersson (born 23 November 1940) is a retired Swedish cyclist. As an amateur, he competed in the individual and team road events at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won one silver and two bronze medals, in 1964 and 1968. In 1968 he also took part in two track events: individual and team 4000 m pursuit.
Pettersson's brothers, Erik, Sture and Tomas, were also Olympic cyclists, and their quartet was known as the Fåglum brothers. They won the World Amateur Cycling Championships in 1967–1969 and a team silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics; three of the brothers were also part of the bronze-winning road team at the 1964 Games. In 1967 they were awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal.
After the 1969 World Championships the Fåglum brothers turned professional. In 1970 Gösta won the Tour de Romandie, Coppa Sabatini and Trofeo Baracchi (with brother Tomas), and finished third at the Tour de France and sixth at the Giro d'Italia. Next year he won the Giro d'Italia, Giro dell'Appennino and Giro delle Marche. During the 1971 Giro he only managed to finish on the stage podium twice and did not win any stages, but was able to win the Maglia Rosa by finishing higher than the GC riders in the time trials and staying with or ahead of them in the mountains.
He finished sixth at the 1972 Giro d'Italia and seventh at the 1973 Tour de Suisse. During the Giro he defeated Merckx in a sprint finish on stage 7 to claim a stage win and come within only +0:10 of Merckx for the overall lead, the only competitor even close to Merckx in the standings. He stayed with the two time Giro champ for the next several stages but ended up losing time in the split time trial of stage 11 and fell back in the standings.
His last major success was second place at the 1974 Tour de Suisse.
Of the Grand Tours he preferred to ride the Giro, competing from 1970 to 1974 finishing in the top ten four times, never finishing worse than 13th. He rode the Tour De France in 1970 finishing on the podium behind Eddy Merckx and Joop Zoetemelk.
After finishing atop the podium in the Giro, ahead of Herman Van Springel and Italian rider Ugo Colombo, he started the 1971 TDF, but abandoned the race prior to reaching the Jaques Anquetil Velodrome.
Pettersson never raced in the Vuelta.

## Major results
### 1962

    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       2nd Road race
    2nd Overall Tour de Tunisie
       1st Stage 4

### 1963

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships

### 1964

    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       3rd Road race
    1st Overall Tour de Tunisie
    7th Road race, Summer Olympics

### 1966

    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       1st Team time trial (with Sture Pettersson and Erik Pettersson)

### 1967

    1st Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships (with Sture, Tomas & Erik Pettersson)
    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       1st Team time trial (with Sture Pettersson and Erik Pettersson)
    1st Overall Tour du Maroc
    1st Scandinavian Race Uppsala
    2nd Overall Tour de Berlin

### 1968

    1st Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships (with Sture, Tomas & Erik Pettersson)
    National Road Championships
       1st Team time trial (with Sture Pettersson and Erik Pettersson)
       2nd Road race
    1st Overall Milk Race
       1st Stages 1a (ITT), 1b & 8b (ITT)
    2nd Overall Tour of Yugoslavia
    Summer Olympics
       2nd Team time trial (with Sture, Tomas & Erik Pettersson)
       3rd Road race

### 1969

    1st Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships (with Sture, Tomas & Erik Pettersson)
    National Road Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial
       1st Team time trial (with Tomas Pettersson and Erik Pettersson)
    1st Overall Tour d'Algérie
    3rd Overall Tour de l'Avenir
       1st Prologue

### 1970

    1st Overall Tour de Romandie
       1st Stage 4b (ITT)
    1st Coppa Sabatini
    1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Tomas Pettersson)
    1st Stage 1b (ITT) Cronostaffetta
    2nd GP Lugano
    2nd GP Forli
    3rd Overall Tour de France
    5th Giro di Romagna
    5th Overall Giro di Sardegna
    6th Overall Giro d'Italia
    9th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
    9th GP Alghero

### 1971

    1st Overall Giro d'Italia
    1st Giro dell'Appennino
    2nd Overall Paris–Nice
    2nd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
    2nd Trofeo Baracchi (with Tomas Pettersson)
    2nd GP Lugano
    2nd Overall Giro di Sardegna
    2nd Baden–Baden (with Tomas Pettersson)
    3rd Milan–San Remo
    3rd GP Forli
    7th Giro dell'Emilia
    7th Trofeo Laigueglia

### 1972

    2nd Giro di Puglia
    3rd Trofeo Baracchi (with Tomas Pettersson)
    3rd GP Forli
    6th Overall Giro d'Italia
       1st Stage 7
    6th Overall Tour de Romandie
    9th Milan–San Remo
    9th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
    9th Giro dell'Emilia

### 1973

    1st Stage 1b (ITT) Cronostaffetta
    2nd Trofeo Baracchi (with Davide Boifava)
    3rd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
    3rd Overall Giro di Sardegna
    7th Overall Tour de Suisse
       1st Stage 8b (ITT)
    8th Overall Tour de Romandie
    10th Giro dell'Emilia

### 1974

    2nd Overall Tour de Suisse
    2nd Trofeo Baracchi (with Martín Emilio Rodríguez)
    4th Overall Volta a Catalunya
    4th GP Lugano
    6th Giro di Toscana
    8th Coppa Placci
    10th Overall Giro d'Italia
    10th Giro di Campania

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | — |
| Giro d'Italia | 6 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 10 |
| Tour de France | 3 | DNF | — | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |